Your Dog’s Journal

This journal consists of 2 parts:

  • the ebook you can read below which includes a lot of useful information and links.
  • the downloadable journal you can print and use.

Use this journal to individualize and monitor your dog’s care, to maximize health and longevity, and minimize healthcare costs.

 

Keeping A Dog Journal Ebook

DOWNLOAD THE healthy dog ebook

The Printable Journal

And here is the pet journal you can download, print out and put into the binder. You can also just replicate the the structure on any journal you have.

DOWNLOAD THE DOG JOURNAL

 

The journal includes:

  • the cover page
  • a two-page bookmark
  • a Biography page
  • a Timeline Of Health page
  • three Treatment Summary pages (you can print more as needed)
  • and 60 Journal pages (print more as needed).

     

    How to use the journal

    • Start with the printed cover page. Attach your dog’s photo to it. Be creative and otherwise decorate the cover page to your taste. You can glue the cover page to the outside of your binder or three-hole punch this page and insert at the beginning of your other printed pages.
    • You will use the next two pages to create a two-sided, movable bookmark, which you will be using each time you make a journal entry. One side will have your dog’s Master Symptom List. The other side shows how to do a physical exam looking for early warning signs of ill health. (More instructions are in the e-Book above as to how to fill out the Master Symptom List with your dog’s symptoms.)
      Observe the width of the text on each page. Your final bookmark should be that width. You can either cut or fold the right and left edges of each page. Then you should fasten them together to construct the two-sided bookmark. You can also insert a piece of cardboard to add firmness and durability.
      Since you will be moving this bookmark frequently, each time you make a journal entry, you want to make sure you don’t lose it. I suggest you punch a hole in the upper left corner and use a long enough piece of ribbon to tie the bookmark to the top ring of your binder and be able to move it from page to page.
    • Finally, three-hold punch the rest of the pages and place them in your binder.